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Nonsense. No Sense?
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008I’ve been pretty down in the dumps lately and if you notice, pretty low in postie outputs, too. I still don’t know why writer’s block has been plaguing me these days but it seems that it already is!…
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Weekly Fest #5: First Day School Blues
Thursday, June 26th, 2008It’s been a long time since I thought about my first day in school. Usually, people think that first day school blues happen only when you’re in grade school or when your baby starts preschool for…
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Rants: Instructor Evaluation
Friday, June 6th, 2008In my school, all our instructors get to be evaluated at least once a year or if you are in college, once every semester. I have been evaluating a lot of teachers since elementary school.
When I was…
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Rants: On Nursing Policies
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008I admit that I am a certified deviant. I think I have already been branded as someone who doesn’t seem to follow rules and policies and still, I get away with it…just barely. I do not recommend…
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When kindness exceeds its limits
Monday, May 5th, 2008Warning: This is an emo post.
This is one of the instances in my life where I have to say, “it’s enough”. I can’t understand why other people can’t appreciate and recognize what you are doing. Urrggghh.. I can’t find the words to say. So here…
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School-time woes
Monday, March 17th, 2008My cousin visited me at prison camp today. She has made the initial steps to join me here. And though life her is not exactly heaven, I think it would do her some good to have some experience at least. She has a little boy after all. And she needs the cash to put her [...]
No more wearing of school uniform
Monday, March 3rd, 2008It’s finally over. My school uniform days are finally done. Last Friday, I went to the University OSA to get my pink slip. The pink slip is a form about quarter of a size of a standard short bond. The university uses this form to excuse somebody from wearing the prescribed uniform, ID, [...]
Free Conversational Tagalog Classes!
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Are you interested in learning Tagalog? Are you fluent in Tagalog and want to help others practice their Tagalog language skills? Are you semi-fluent in Tagalog and would like to practice your own skills?If you answered yes to any of the above question…
Adventures in Nihongo: Getting my feet wet
Saturday, January 19th, 2008Okay, so I am going to Japanese language school. I had found the school in the papers way back in October, but I couldn’t attend because of my trip in November. I decided to join the Beginners class at the beginning of 2008. Bagong taon, bagong buhay. …
My Reply to Response
Friday, November 2nd, 2007My copy of Response, the quarterly alumni magazine of Seattle Pacific University, arrived yesterday. I eagerly toted it to work for cover-to-cover reading pleasure. And it is a treasure-chest of an issue. I am still in the middle of it, and I’m accumul…
In the End
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Ha! Nahuman na gyud ko ug duty sa SMC! Baling kapoya oi! Makamatay! Di gyud ko ganahan sa surgery ward oi! Grrrr! I hate my course! I HATE NURSING!!!!grabbed from…
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Post-Graduate Intership: Which is the best hospital?
Friday, September 7th, 2007I thought that my four years of stay in medical college and the hospital rotations I am having right now for clerkship were the hardest part of my medical education, until I faced choosing for the best hospital to do my post-graduate internship, which include:
1. Monetary constraints. I come from an average family so I had to consider it.
2. The board exam which comes 2 months after internship. Many have advised that I should choose a hospital which is not too busy, nor benign to prepare for the board exam.
3. The skills I could acquire. I was advised that I should go to a public hospital to acquire more skills. In our clerkship, we were exposed to both private and public hospitals and I could really compare the difference. It is true that when you are at a private hospital, you acquire “lesser” skills, due to the lesser number of cases to handle, but the advantage is you get the appropriate techniques. Further, in private hospitals, you are “hands off” when you are not a license yet because the patient pays for a better service. At a public hospital, you are are exposed to different kinds of cases, the great thing is you can do the procedures yourself. But of course, this differences varies among hospitals.
4. Knowledge acquisition. According to many, it is better to go to a teaching hospital to enhance your learning and as preparation for the board exam. But I could say that learning varies greatly from person to person. If you are a graduate of the problem-based learning curriculum like in our case, where you are trained to read for yourself, you can always manage to study even without that teachings of your consultant. But of course, you are learning a lot.
Until now, I am confused of which hospital to cho choices and the deadline is on September 10, 2007 for God’s sake!
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Nursing exam flunkers as practical nurses
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007The June 2007 nursing licesure exam results will be released in the middle of August 2007. Only half of the 78,000 board takers are predicted to pass.
For some people, not passing the board exam may mean a closed door for opportunities for being full nurses. Good thing that the Department of Labor and Employment or DOLE have proposed a program for those who won’t make it to the licensure exam.
While they can have a re-take, one fall back offered by the DOLE is to have them licensed as practical nurses, assuming they do not want a re-take. This opens another opportunity for nurses to work abroad and practice their chosen field even though they failed the test.
Practical nursing is a two-year vocational nursing courses usually taken by high school graduates. Practical nurses’ duties are simple medical tasks, mostly dealing with patient medication and care, under the direction of a full nurse or a physician.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in Braille Edition
Monday, July 23rd, 2007The National Braille Press had a special exclusive agreement with Scholastic Press, the publisher of Harry Potter book series (in the US), released a special braille edition of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Wallows, the last of the series. It is 1000 pages long in 10 volumes, weighing about 12 pounds, and standing more than a foot tall when stacked up. It costs $63 to publish one book with an expected higher price than the regular print edition but with NBP partnering with Yahoo! blind children and need not to spend more for a copy of the book than sighted people.
Two groups of Harry Potter fans, who aims to provide everyone (including the blind) an access to this international phenomenon, had made an initiative to raise funds for the project. The Walking Wizards had committed to raise $10,000 and Harry Potter for Grownups (a Yahoo! group) to raise $7,777. Yahoo! has spotted the kind intention of these groups and decided to help them with their goal. Yahoo! has decided to donate to the National Braille Press what each of these two initiatives raise, up to their respective goals.
The braille edition was released on the same time as the print edition. Thanks to all these charitable giving that even the blind can now experience the magical world of Harry Potter.
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Blogging and Time Management
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007An interesting post over PinoyBlogero, entitled “Student Bloggers: Juggling Studies and Blogging” has put me into deep thoughts on how I manage to blog and study at the same time.
I am a fourth year medical student, currently on my clerkship and hospital rotations, and if compared to an average student, perhaps I face bigger responsibilities, sacrifice, hardships, and self-punishment or anyway you put it. I tried several attempts to quit blogging but I just couldn’t because:
Firstly, it’s one of my passions. I have always been tagged as an internet addict by people around. I just can’t simply live without the internet, blogging included.
Secondly, I am earning from it. My revenues from this blog is not that much but at least it can contribute to my school fees, add luxuries to that. At least on that part, I am helping my parents because I’ve been a burden to them in my 23 years of existence.
Thirdly, I am learning from it. Aside from getting information from other blogs, I also learn by posting several topics. Whenever I find a good topic, I search to expound it more.
Fourthly, I get to meet several interesting people. So I don’t need Friendster or MySpace to “extend” my number of friends.
Lastly, the most important reason why I can afford to blog despite my busy schedule is I know how to manage my time.
Tags:Blogging, Blogging Addiction, Clinical Clerkship, Education, Internet, Personal, School
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Videos: Different graphical multiplication tricks
Monday, July 16th, 2007…for beginners?! Aside from the classical method of multiplication, there are interesting ways to solve a multiplication problem.
The Easy Mental Trick
The Graphical Method with the aid of circles and grid lines
It is a method of multiplying large numbers using a grid. This method breaks the multiplication process into smaller steps, which some students find easier. Digits to be carried are written within the grid, making them harder to miss. For explanation of the video, please click here.
These methods, except for the Lattice Method, are not yet proven accurate, thus, it is still recommended that you use the traditional way of solving your multiplication problems.
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Sunday Surprise
Sunday, June 24th, 2007A church friend was very surprised to learn that I majored in Biology in college. He thought I had a Business degree. Well, that surprised me! He said Ma-PR daw ako.
back to school
Tuesday, June 5th, 2007yesterday, the public schools have begun their classes. (which means, the intolerable traffic in manila when i go there. darn it.) while i was nccc lunch time, there were these children with their big bags wearing their school uniform. and the nost…
Free Medical E-Books for Doctors and Medical Students on the Go
Saturday, June 2nd, 2007Medical iSilo™ Depot is a collection of medical documents created for use with the iSilo™, a highly versatile document reader available for Palm OS®, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile Smartphone, Sybmain UIQ, Symbian Series 60, and Windows® CE Handheld PC handhelds, as well as for Windows® computers.
Medical iSilo Depot has a collection of more than 150 iSilo documents for the medical PDA user and more than 100 are free! These documents are useful for doctors and medical students on the go for quick references while they are away from their books.
MemoWare also offer free medicinel e-books for your palm OS and pocket PC.
iSilo’s latest version 4.32 is available for download at their website.
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Your test performance is written in your fingers!
Friday, May 25th, 2007Students’ fingertips may hold a clue to their academic test scores, a British study found out. 75 children aged 6-7 at a British elementary school. The subjects’ hands were photocopied and the length of their fingers measured. They checked the children’s math and verbal scores on a standardized British academic exam, then compared the test scores and finger length data, especially the ratio of the length between the children’s index and ring fingers.
The results say that:
Among boys, a low ratio of index finger length to ring finger length was associated with higher math scores. But that ratio wasn’t associated for better or worse with boys’ verbal test scores.
The opposite was true for girls. Among girls, a low ratio of index finger length to ring finger length was linked to better verbal test scores, but not to any patterns in girls’ math test scores. WebMD.com
Further researches, however, are required to prove these findings.
So if you always flunk on your math exams, blame it to your fingers. 
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2007 DOST Scholarship Exam Result out now!
Sunday, April 1st, 2007Finally, the result was out. We were and have been patiently (or impatiently) waiting for it because my sister applied for the scholarship.
To the thousand other hopefuls, you can now access the result at http://www.sei.dost.gov.ph/scho_2007.html. Good luck.
It is a PDF file so you need an Acrobat Reader to view it.
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School, So Far
Thursday, September 29th, 2005The week is not over yet, but I’m feeling great. Praise the Lord. Classes went ok. I am not feeling stressed (yet). Homework is not really unbearable. I think I am feeling great because I have not yet lost a whole lot of sleep. I love my sleep…Anyhow…
Going Bananas
Saturday, September 24th, 2005It’s not because it’s Anna Banana’s birthday yesterday (Happy Birthday, skeeshie!); it’s because I read a couple of syllabi for fall quarter. Whoever told me to read syllabi ahead of time must hate me. I don’t think I’ll be able to sleep now…*screams…
Spring Quarter 05
Friday, June 24th, 2005The quarter where I worked the hardest in all my years at SPU, is the quarter that I got the lowest GPA. I don’t know what it means. Study less? Study more? Stop caring?